Borrowed fromFrenchqueue.Doublet ofCoda.
Queue m orn (strong,genitiveQueues,pluralQueues)
- (billiards, snooker, pool)cue
- Originally neuter. Now predominantly masculine in Germany.
Declension ofQueue [masculine // neuter, strong]
Queue f (genitiveQueue,pluralQueues)
- (military, archaic) the end of acolumn of troops
Declension ofQueue [feminine]
Borrowed fromEnglishqueue, from the French in etymology 1.
Queue f (genitiveQueue,pluralQueues)
- (computing)queue(waiting list, e.g. of tasks to be done)
- Queue is one of a small number of German nouns which can or historically could have all three genders; seethe appendix.
Declension ofQueue [feminine]